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Software developers | project managers | scrum masters | product owners
Calling on product owners, scrum masters, and agile believers! Looking to implement the Agile way of working throughout your company using monday.com? Keep reading to find out how Master Data can make your company well, more agile!
Agile methodology is all about adaptability, collaboration, and fast feedback. To do this, teams break projects into short sprints (usually 1–4 weeks), constantly adapting plans based on progress and user feedback. For example, this is how a software development company would use agile:
By the way, did you know that monday.com built monday dev specifically for Agile workflows? If you’re looking for a great and easy-to-use platform to work agile, start your free trial here now!
If you’ve been doing Agile for some time now, or having read the previous section, you realize that today’s agile focuses on the team level. The challenge arises when you decide to scale. The following seems familiar?
The result? Mini-agile workspaces working in isolation. Each team moves fast, but the overall system is still slow.
Agile boards in monday dev consist of the following core boards: tasks, sprints, epics, bugs queue, and restrospective. Each team has their own set of these boards.
While these monday dev boards set the foundation of your Agile workflow, one key element is missing: data unification. If the company has multiple teams working Agile, what is now crucial is a tool that brings all of these together.
Enter Master Data! With its cross-board sync functionality, Master Data connects these boards into their own Master Boards. Want to see all team sprints in one place? Look no further with your own Master Sprints Board. Want to check up bugs queue resolution rate? Instant insights from the Master Bugs Board. High-level boards in monday.com – simple, quick, just like that!
Your core agile boards will be what we call “Source Boards.” Since these are where your team does the grunt work, these boards are your source of data.
By installing Master Data and setting up our automation recipes, cross-board sync happens so you won’t have to worry about data synchronization from these boards into a high-level board in monday.com!
Agile success relies on data-driven decision-making. By pulling all task, sprint, and epic data into their own Master Boards, teams can generate more insightful reports.
Some of the key metrics that can be visualized on a Master Board include:
While monday.com’s dashboard limits only allows you to connect a certain number of boards depending on your plan, Master Data offers a creative solution. Instead of a dashboard, all items from your source boards are synced to one board, where you can do all of your reporting.
What this gives you is more flexibility in creating customized reports, higher ability to filter and group items, and as an added bonus, a backup of data from all your team boards!
Want to share progress with your product owners? No problem! Just send them a shareable link of the sprint boards that handle their project.
Because each team works on their own boards in monday dev, you can grant access to these boards specifically to their respective stakeholders. But more importantly, you still got a high-level board in monday.com to keep track of progress at the same time.
As the number of your Agile teams increases, so does the number of monday.com boards you need to manage. Master Data allows you to scale by:
📅 Book a demo today to see how Master Data can help your business.
Collect all tasks across different monday.com boards on one master board providing complete visibility and control over your data.
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Mint Consulting Australia Pty Ltd (ABN: 13 629 524 572) is a Sydney-based CRM and Salesforce Managed Services consultancy specializing in implementations, integrations, and business strategy, supported by a skilled local team of consultants, solution architects, and developers.
